JAPAN: Labor's Love Lost

Japan's adolescent trade unions last week had
discovered that democracy, like the art of love, is hard to learn (or
practice) as long as Pop is in the parlor with the lights on.* For
Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur, who fathered the Japanese union
movement in October 1945, the problem was how to get out of the parlor
with grace and dignity. Necessary occupation discipline had at last
collided head on with Japan's experimental democracy.